{"id":15203,"date":"2021-11-23T01:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T06:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=15203"},"modified":"2021-11-23T01:28:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T06:28:06","slug":"target-to-keep-stores-closed-on-thanksgiving-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=15203","title":{"rendered":"Target to keep stores closed on Thanksgiving for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3000-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"188\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Target will no longer open its stores on Thanksgiving Day, making permanent a shift to the unofficial start of the holiday season that was suspended during the pandemic. To limit crowds in stores, retailers last year were forced to turn what had become a weekend shopping blitz into an extended event, with big holiday discounts beginning as early as October.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-lifestyle-holidays-shopping-f280f3afa3edf048e468aac33d9eb9a2\">Target to keep stores closed on Thanksgiving for good<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Good!\u00a0 hopefully the other larger retailers will do the same.\u00a0 Not hopeful.\u00a0 and if they don&#8217;t, how long will target be able to continue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Target will no longer open its stores on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[18,470,57],"class_list":["post-15203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-economics","tag-retail","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}